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Larry Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency , Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American ...
Lawrence Roberts (born December 21, 1937, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 26, 2018, Redwood City, California) was an American computer scientist who supervised the construction of the ARPANET, a computer network that was a precursor to the Internet.
30 Dis 2018 · He was 81. The cause was a heart attack, said his son Pasha. As a manager at the Pentagon’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, or ARPA, Dr. Roberts designed much of the Arpanet — the internet’s...
Dr. Roberts designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet). At that time, in 1967, Dr. Roberts became the Chief Scientist of ARPA taking on the task of designing, funding, and managing the radically new communications network concept of packet switching.
5 Jun 2024 · Lawrence G. Roberts is best known for his work on the development of the ARPANET, a key predecessor to the internet and the first major network built on the principle of packet switching, and later as a pioneer of commercial packet switching with his roles in Telenet and the widely deployed X.25 protocol.
31 Dis 2018 · American scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. In the late 1960s, he ran the part of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency...
3 Jan 2019 · It was the latter ability that gave Lawrence Gilman Roberts, who died Dec. 26 at the age of 81, a place in history. Because one of the things Larry Roberts got done was the internet. In his ...
